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The argument as far as I can tell is "FOSS means I don't have to pay anything because it doesn't cost anything! If they ask for donations they don't mean me"

Not a single one of them have a monthly contribution to their instance though. Guaran-fucking-tee it.

Nice interrobang‽

They're already very short with plentiful offspring. They have what's known as an "R-Type" reproductive strategy.

It's possible that accelerates but it's also possible that a successful adaptation has longer gestation cycles. It's not really something you can easily predict.

They do have a lot of them and have a 1yr reproduction cycle. That's a lot better than other marine life.

They're more likely to adapt than, say, tuna.

Doesn't mean it's a guarantee but it's better odds.

Well yeah this presupposes that management knows what the fuck they're doing.

Which is vanishingly rare. It happens sometimes though. I worked at a small 12 man shop that had an engineer CEO who valued doing things right. Very refreshing.

Not a typo - a false economy is a decision that saves money in the short term but wastes more than it saves in the long term.

Expensive engineers is a category dipshit.

You add an S to a noun in English to show it's a category or grouping instead of a specific individual.

Learn to fucking read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_category

Definitely - hiring isn't easy.

But you'll never get value for money from engineers who don't care, and you have a 0% chance of a cheap contractor caring.

Again - I don't blame them. They shouldn't care. The company clearly doesn't respect them.

But it's a false economy.

optimizing backend services is expensive because good engineers are expensive

um acktually you can't build services faster by hiring tons of people 🤓🤓

Reading comprehension: you lack it.

That's not what I said or even remotely implied.

If you want a good back end that isn't bloated you can't use cheap contractors or junior engineers - you need someone who knows what they're doing.

It's a fight I'm constantly fighting at work. They finally dropped all the super cheap contractors that were trying to hard code a list of 20 identical entries that differed only by a single field. The contractors who thought the peak of architectural design was decomposition of any method more than 5 lines long into confusingly named functions that had an additional 10 layers of decomposition to them. The cheap contractors who thought that documentation was a waste of time and that the code was "self documenting".

These contractors weren't paid to care - I don't blame them for phoning it in. But if you want a system to work well and be cheap to run you pay your engineers well or inspire such devotion that FOSS is possible.

But the fact is the overwhelming majority of large, optimized and successful FOSS is funded by megacorps

And the way you don't bloat your backend?

Expensive engineers